🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

CAer here. Newsom has spent the last year on his own podcast platforming fascists, agreeing with transphobes & recently pro ICE Shapiro. Policy-wise he's been criminalizing the unhoused, reneged on several social programs, and more. When Tr*mp sent ICE here he said some stuff and did NOTHING.

The disconnect between management and employee on AI usage is big. At the same time, CEOs are reporting they aren't seeing any revenue growth from AI. 🤷 www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...

Fuck this garbage. Think of all the talented artists in Glasgow who you could have chosen from to get a payday from this gig instead of the money being handed over to a slop merchant.

Well, it’s the 9th anniversary of this today. No special reason for mentioning it now, obviously

We’ve been speaking out against KOSA since it was introduced in 2022 by Marsha Blackburn, a bigot and outspoken advocate for censoring trans people off the internet in effort to “protect children from the transgender in this culture.” KOSA has ALWAYS been about censorship and suppression.

get in, no time to explain

If anyone works at major HR firms and platforms (Salesforce, Workday, etc.) and has info about what drove adding these questions to job applications in the last few months my DMs are open and my Signal is SydneyBauer.30 You will have anonymity.

New from 404 Media: ICE's facial recognition app, which the agency is using to decide who to detain and deport, misidentified a woman. Twice. ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

How sad is this? The CDC closed its FOIA office, so this story could only be published because a Danish journalist provided Rolling Stone with the documents, after obtaining them through a freedom of information request to the University of Southern Denmark www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Because Charlie mentioned the National Lawyers Guild, and it’s Friday, it’s the perfect time to remind everyone that it’s always the right time to SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP. youtu.be/nWEpW6KOZDs?...

For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Comic-con deciding to allow GenAi imagery in the art show —giving valuable space to GenAi users to show slop right NEXT to actual artists who worked their asses off to be there— is a disgrace! A tone deaf decision that rewards and normalizes exploitative GenAi against artists in their own spaces!

Ok y'all. I wasn't sure but.... The kid is back on her Girl Scout cookie bullshit! (complimentary) There is a new cookie! But my kiddo's big hope? SAVE THE TOFFEETASTICS. (They are apparently under threat. Gluten free AND delicious!) digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/miriam...

BREAKING: Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife has made a “transformational” donation to the LGBTQ+ advocacy group. This large gift comes just months after the Trump administration shut down counseling services for queer youth. My latest for @wired.com:

My brain every time Greenland is mentioned, regardless of context.

The USPS will host a free first-day-of-issue event to mark the launch of its Bruce Lee Forever stamps on Feb. 18 at the Nippon Kan Theatre in Japantown (628 S Washington St).

I keep thinking about how a young woman DoorDash driver was charged and hauled into court for recording and posting evidence of her customer sexually harassing her, while nothing is happening to the droves of men using Grok to sexually harass women and children. The institutions are pro-perpetrator.

This highlights how commercial data brokers have used law enforcement as a way to be shielded from necessary regulation. @bedoyausa.bsky.social was working on these issues more than a decade ago. Congress has failed to do its job.

Literally the first news outlet I've seen directly quoting her wife. Even the NPR piece on Renee Good that aired this morning made no mention of Becca Good whatsoever.

NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

Privacy tip of the day. If you use OpenTable, opt out of data sharing, including the use of point of sale info from your reservations for them to use for their own purposes (profile you and share those profiles with restaurants: “big spender” “buys wine” etc). Account settings->Communications

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

The Spanish version is “the left liberates, the right oppresses” and once I learned that, both screws and politics made more sense

@wilsonforseattle.bsky.social Can we get Seattle to follow @gregpak.net ‘s suggestion for NYC to open official accounts here on BlueSky instead of (or in addition to) Twitter/X? @seattlefas.bsky.social is here already, but it looks like there’s at least three other ofc. acts that could join them!

This bit of news — at least 40 dead— appears around the 27th graf of the NYT story. Which is a really bizarre choice. (And we find out a few grafs down that several US soldiers were injured)

*2026

Has anyone in the press asked how many people were killed?

Happy New Year! In about a week or so, I’m going to put my Etsy store on a long term (2-3 month) hiatus. So if there’s anything you want, now is the time to grab it! thegarbagefile.etsy.com

No cheating: quote skeet with the most recent picture of your pet

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

2025*****

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Ah fuck I used this security system and two little guys snuck into my house and destroyed my most prized possession

Enough with the mask bullying. I mask because I understand aerosol transmission, because our governments all declared the pandemic over before cleaning indoor air, because I’m not OK with multiple reinfections of a new virus, because vulnerable people deserve access to society. #oneofthetwo

Two weeks ago I spent the whole day at the Museum of the Moving Image to listen to New Yorkers. This is what Liam shared with me.

It is. You can actually search visible text on the redacted documents and the completely UNredacted document appears in the results 😭

"Results indicated that LLMs often proposed inferior treatments when patient race was explicitly or implicitly indicated, though diagnostic decisions demonstrated minimal bias."

Let me understand you correctly, governments can care that people are being murdered?

"human driver" statistical comparisons are fraught because these AVs only operate on certain roads and in certain conditions, but the important takeaway here is that Teslas are deeply unsafe and should not be on the road

GAZA IS DROWNING IN RAIN WATER AND THEY ARE ALL IN TENTS AND ISRAEL IS STILL FIRING ON PEOPLE AND THIS ISN'T A MAJOR NEWS STORY BECAUSE OF RACISM

Daphne Keller examines the legal scope of available tech platform data under the Digital Services Act's Article 40(12). The examination begins with a legal analysis, continues with a comparison to other relevant laws, and concludes with a review of specific data categories for research.

Shelley, the one-woman show who runs Whistling Train Farm, has a GoFundMe to help pay for the expenses of digging her farm out after the flooding: www.gofundme.com/f/help-whist...

If you look at Google Maps, every county from King to Whatcom at the Canadian border has numerous flood disaster icons… we’re probably in the triple digits across the state. Shelley at WTF is just one of many farmers who is going to need all our help to feed us again ❤️

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